George, thank you so much for talking about the treatment of Saka on the pitch and in the media. as someone with close heritage to him, its so obvious what were seeing and nobody wants to call it out. Well done for having the courage mate. As Arsenal supporters we know what it means for players to get hurt because of people not doing their jobs or pushing a particular narrative "for some reason", and it always ends up in damage that is never acknowledged. I can only hope that B wont end up the same way. Today you showed yourself to be a man off courage, principle and honesty who isn't controlled by unconscious bias and I, for one, am glad there are still people like you left in the world. Cheers mate 👍

George,there is bias against Saka but it's not for those reasons. It's because he is an Arsenal player, that's all. There IS an agenda from the media against Arsenal and their players. Just look at the banter Mikel gets, the 'bottlers' tag, the celebration police. The list is endless. If Saka played for City or United he'd be the golden boy

Thank you, some sane comments about yesterday's performance

Thank you George for finally bringing the Saka conversation to the light. It's ridiculous. I heard Clive on the arsevision say something similar and I think we need to have some transparent conversations at the end of the season. 😤

Big up George for using your voice to talk the truth about Saka. It's obvious but you're one of the first to address it directly. Well done, it took bravery and I respect you x1000 more for saying it.

I love the fact that George still call that place White Hart Lane 😂

Regarding Saka, I think it's simply an aesthetic thing for people outside of Arsenal. Foden and Palmer have this style of play that looks amazing on the eye to the casual observer. All these people need to see is 4-5 moments of crazy brilliance combined with half decent G/A numbers and thats confirmation enough for them. I think bringing race into this is getting into conspiracy theory territory worthy of the type of mocking Matt Le Tissier receives.

To answer you George: Thibaut Courtois was a player who got loaned out for 2 years and came back to become an integral part of the team

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I think the Saka and Rodri ommission is alot simpler than most people are thinking. Its a simple quota issue. It just seems like the people behind the list just dont want to give any single team more than 2 slots. Idk why, maybe because otherwise the list would be boring; maybe they want to acknowledge outstanding players outside of the 2 teams chasing the league title; maybe otherwise, the list would be entirely Arsenal and Man C players. As for why Saka wasnt picked ahead of Odegaard and Rice. The way I'm looking at it is: which players in a team has been elevating the entire team (not just themselves) the most this season? Coz from that context, I can see the reasoning behind Palmer, Van Djik, Ollie, Rice. Odegaard has been instrumental in our attack and defense this season, id argue more so than Saka (though I'd expect some argument about this). Foden was one of the main reasons Man C kept them winning in clutch moments when they didnt have Haaland and De Bruyne. So its not a question about Saka vs Palmer in terms of numbers. Its possible that Saka has better numbers because he's in a team that platforms him better whereas Palmer succeeds in spite of his team. Rather, if we view it under the lens of "oh, they wont pick more than 2 players per team", then yeah the list make more sense. Is this stupid? kinda yeah. But we're talking about it ALOT, so there's that. And whats the alternative? 4 Arsenal players, 3 Man City players, and Palmer? If the list is meant to be an acknowledgement of outstanding players in grand scheme of this season, imagine how weird it'll be if we dont acknowledge that Liverpool and Aston Villa did much better than anyone thought, and the big reasons why are Van Djik & Ollie, etc. The Haaland admission is a weird blemish though. But i assume its because they felt they cant omit the likely golden boot winner from the list.

The thing about winning the prem is that is has been 20 years and we still speak like we won it 2 seasons ago we speak like a top 20 but no top team goes 20 years trophyless

Bhavs, c’mon, you really just side stepped George’s point about Saka like that? Poor.

I’m not gonna say I’m not one of those fans who thinks we don’t have much chance of winning the league, but equally I am proud of this Arsenal team. The second we got the result at Old Trafford I was beaming with pride, knowing we’ve been the underdog in this title race for the whole season even when we’ve had our destiny in our own hands. We’ve pushed City right to the wire in spite of that. It’s bizarre that anyone can look at Arteta or this team and see them as failures. Come on you Gunners! ❤

wonderful podcast.. George ... you are such a good analyst/podcaster. I love listening to your take on everything Arsenal. You are always on point. thanks.

The thing with younger fans is when we were bad other teams won titles but now when others are bad they are not able to totally rub it off on rival fans. Golden generations can vaporise in no time so fans want something tangible to cling on into. Idt anyone with brain actually doubt Arteta as a manager. Every Big 5 team since we won Invincible have won at least one PL and UCL.

That was 97-98. Beat Man U 0-1 away and then smashed Everyon at home for the title. Adams scoring 2 one of which was a lung busting worldy from the edge of the box

'98 Everton home '02 Utd away '04 Spurs away

here after spuds shat the bed. hoping yall help us process this. feels horrible.

this Sunday jerk of a ref wanted Bukayo killed. It was clear as day. It's mad what Dalot kept getting away with

Keep saying the Guardiola has never won at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium but they actually won there in the FA Cup just a couple of months ago. They've never won there in the league though and generally haven't

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Request: can one of you brilliwnt content creators put together a comp of all the fouls saka has taken this year. Including a " not given" and " nkt given a card" categroies. Someone needs to start the narrative!

Harry Kane is one of those loanees that come to mind.

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City won at spurs stadium this season during an FA cup match. They had like 18shots on target to spurs one shot on target and city won 1-0

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Absolutely disgraceful that Saka has been left out of the POTY nominations. The way that he has performed is just one reason why he should have been a shoe-in, but the way that he carries himself, the way that he puts up with the relentless physical abuse from scumbags who would rather try to break him than beat him and the way that he never EVER shows anything but the class and courage to keep getting up and going again are, for me, the actual reasons that he should win it. I honestly believe that it is time to start taking into account the "who" and not just the statistical "what" if we are to improve the standing of the game itself.

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We can all keep being delusional. The fact is that United as crap as they’ve been all season were able to play a highline with Johnny Evans and Casemiro! For over 60minutes!!! There’s no excuse for this. And why doesn’t this manager use his subs? All Arsenal players are fit , a full bench . Yet it took Saka to get injured before Jesus could play?

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I think George is not able to take a step back in his apologia for Saka. Saka has repeatedly dropped stinkers this year. Almost every time he does so, he gets the phantom limp. Other wingers and players are also double marked. He is not special in that regard, Foden gets kicked and double marked as much does Saka. However, what I think pisses off fans is that Saka's phantom limp is used to disguise subpar performances. Also in terms of the player of the season, I also don't agree with George, Saka has scored a lot of penalties like Palmer which to many fans diminishes his goal involvements. So I think that the conclusion is that he isn't seen as worthy of being nominated, or being under more criticism because he is black is really pushing the boundaries of credulity here. That thinking is not helpful and is not supported by evidence, otherwise why is Ollie Watkins up there? He's also black, so why was he nominated and not Saka ? George should know that that is irrelevant to who is nominated for player of the season. Ollie Watkins is up there because he has been getting lots of goals (approximately 19? around the time of this message) and has been outstanding in lifting Villa up to UCL spot contention. I really do think the pod and especially George has dropped the ball on this one, with the easy, lazy and ill considered takes.

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